Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood.
~Benjamin Franklin
Nobody became an actor because he had a good childhood.
~William H. Macy
The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.
~Bill Cosby
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
~ James Baldwin
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
~ Deepak Chopra
Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.
~George Will
The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day
~ John Milton
Childhood is that wonderful time of life when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath.
~ Richard Zera
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.
~Sigmund Freud
He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast.
~Herbert Gold
Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood
~ Benjamin Franklin
If a child lives with approval, he learns to live with himself.
~ Dorothy Law Nolte
Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.
~Henri Frederic Amiel
Childhood is the sleep of reason.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Childhood is that wonderful time of life when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath.
~Author Unknown
An adolescent is both an impulsive child and a self-starting adult.
~ Mason Cooley
Teach your child to hold his tongue, He’ll learn fast enough to speak.
~Benjamin Franklin
Unlike grownups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
~ Goethe
The things which the child loves remain in the domain of the heart until old age. The most beautiful thing in life is that ur souls remaining over the places where we once enjoyed ourselves
~Kahlil Gibran
It is never too late to have a happy childhood.
~Tom Robbins
Beat your child once a day. If you don’t know why, he does.
~Chinese proverb.. Not that I agree..
If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
~Tom Stoppard
Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.
~ Ned Rorem
Do not mistake a child for his symptom.
~ Erik Erikson
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
~George Eliot
The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.
~Ellen Glasgow
Old age lives minutes slowly, hours quickly; childhood chews hours and swallows minutes.
~Malcolm de Chazal
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
~ Harold S. Hulbert
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment, and especially on their children, than the unlived lives of the parents.
~ Carl Jung
Of all animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
~Plato
The events of childhood do not pass but repeat themselves like seasons of the year.
~ Eleanor Farjeon
Sweet childish days, that were as long
As twenty days are now.
~William Wordsworth
If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
~Tom Stoppard
A child thinks twenty shillings and twenty years can scarce ever be spent.
~Benjamin Franklin
Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children.
~Richard Henry Dana
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
~Deepak Chopra
The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues.
~Cicero
Childhood is a promise that is never kept.
~Ken Hill
Children have more need of models than of critics.
~ Joseph Joubert
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.
~ Sigmund Freud
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
~ Goethe
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
~Marcel Proust
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
~Bible
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
~Graham Greene
Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength.
~ Bible
There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again.
~Elizabeth Lawrence
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